Archie Henderson - Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right - A Guide to Archives

Reference:

Guide to the American Library Association Archives. By Maynard Brichford. Chicago: American Library Association, 1979. 2 microfiche and 8p. pamphlet

Websites with information:

http://archives.library.illinois.edu/ala/

http://archives.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/

http://archives.library.illinois.edu/alaarchon/?p=collections/classifications

Finding aids to Office for Intellectual Freedom Subject Files, 1965-2008:

http://archives.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/0601006a.pdf

http://archives.library.illinois.edu/alaarchon/?p=accessions/accession&id=132

http://archives.library.illinois.edu/alaarchon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=7402

Finding aids to James P. Danky Papers, 1965-2001:

http://archives.library.illinois.edu/alaarchon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=7997

http://archives.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/9701044a.pdf

[0115b] American Nazi Party Recruiting Materials, c.1966, Ms2015-060

Location: Special Collections, University Libraries (0434), 560 Drillfield Drive, Newman Library, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061

Description: This collection includes materials from a membership recruiting packet for the American Nazi Party, including a letter signed by Matt Koehl, the National Secretary for the American Nazi Party, a biographical article about George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, a copy of the Program of the World Union of National Socialists describing the party platform, an order form for the party magazine, The Rockwell Report, an order form for political flyers called "'Back to Africa' tickets," and a copy of a short comic book called Here Comes Whiteman.

Finding aid:

http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01823.xml

[0116] American Party Broadsides, 1847-1855

Location: Special Collections, The Filson Historical Society, 1310 South 3rd Street, Louisville, KY 40208

Description: The American Party rose to popularity in the mid-1800s owing to their anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic political platform. Political paraphernalia from the Know-Nothing Party including its platform and beliefs, a manifesto, and a warning to the voters of the Fayette Congressional District to unite immediately against the immigrants and Catholics in their region.

Finding aids:

http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt75hq3rv88m/guide

https://nyx.uky.edu/fa/findingaid/?id=xt75hq3rv88m

[0116a] American Patriots Against Foreign Wars Collection

Location: Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399

Description: American Patriots Against Foreign Wars was a patriotic organization founded about 1938 by Eliot Edson Overdorf of Lake Forest, Ill.

Websites with information:

https://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/manuscriptcollections/mss_collections.html

[0117] American political campaigns miscellany, 1868-2012 (bulk 1968-1980), Coll. 6477

Location: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, 2B Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

Description: Print, broadside, ribbon, posters, buttons, bumper stickers, bubble gum, greeting card, headscarf, medal, postcards and inaugural programs from various political campaigns, both national and gubernatorial (New York State). Contains materials from campaigns of Hamilton Fish, Barry Goldwater, Herbert C. Hoover, Jack Kemp, Alfred M. Landon, Douglas MacArthur (Constitution Party 1952), Robert A. Taft, George C. Wallace, and Wendell Willkie. Articles, speeches, or remarks by Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Karl E. Mundt, Strom Thurmond, and James B. Utt. Copies of None Dare Call It Treason (By John A. Stormer), A Choice Not An Echo (By Phyllis Schlafly), and Where I Stand (By Senator Barry Goldwater).

Websites with information:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/browselists/allRMC.html

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/browselists/socsc.html

http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/r/rmc/socsc.html

Finding aids:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM06477.html

http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=rmc;cc=rmc;rgn=main;view=text;­didno=RMM

06477.xml

http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=rmc;cc=rmc;type=simple;rgn=Entire%20­Finding%20Aid;q1=American%20political%20campaigns%20miscellany;view=reslist;subview=standard;sort=occur;start=1;size=25;didno=RMM06477.xml

[0118] American Political Items Collectors collection, 1895-1988, C0023

Location: Special Collections Research Center, Fenwick Library, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive MSN 2FL, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444

Description: The American Political Items Collectors (APIC) is a non-profit membership organization that seeks to encourage and support the collection, study, and preservation of original materials relating to political campaigns of the United States of America. The collection contains donations of scholarly material that relates to national political campaigns as well as American history dating from 1895 to 1988. This collection is comprised of presidential campaigning materials that stem from bumper stickers to voting ballots. Not only is it an extensive collection of presidential campaigns but it also houses historical magazines, newspapers, and many other manuscripts and books. Series 1: Subject Files 1895-1982, is composed of campaigning materials such as informational pamphlets, stickers and stamps.. Files on J.S. Coxey (1895-1896), Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, and Richard Nixon. Series 3: Oversize Material, 1940-1988, is composed of posters, newspapers, photographs, and political buttons. Includes posters for Richard Nixon, John G. Schmitz and Thomas J. Anderson (1972), and George Wallace.

Websites with information:

http://sca.gmu.edu/collections-alpha.php

Finding aid:

http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/apic.html

[0119] American Protective League, New York Division Papers, ca. 1917-1919, D.419

Location: Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation, Rush Rhees Library, Second Floor, Room 225, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0055

Description: The American Protective League, New York Division Papers document the activities of an organization made up of private citizens who identified suspected German sympathizers and any other anti-American groups to protect the United States against foreign enemies during World War I. Members reported to the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Investigation. There were two classes of members: active and inactive. Active members were responsible for investigating cases assigned to them by government officials or agencies. Inactive members reported information to benefit the government and any potential investigation. Each member upon joining received an identification card. The rules and regulations of the League specified that members keep their affiliation with the organization a secret and only disclose their connection during the process of an investigation, if appropriate.

Websites with information:

http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/mssalpha

Finding aid:

http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/4746

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=4746

[0120] American Protestant Association Records, 1842-1843, RG 323

Location: Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard St, Philadelphia, PA 19147

Description: The American Protestant Association was formed in Philadelphia in 1842. Its founders were alarmed at the spread of Roman Catholicism in the United States, feeling as they did that it was "subversive of civil and religious liberty." They formed an association to further their Protestant interests; to educate their congregations about the differences between Protestantism and "Popery," and to encourage a through study of the Bible. The records of the Association include its Constitution, minutes, and first annual report.